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Girl Scout Cookie Sales
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Mrs. Austin T. Breyer (Daisy), 2730 Lakeland Avenue, ordering Girl Scout cookies from Scouts Mary Ripp, left, 2202 Lakeland Avenue, a member of Troop 12 of St. Bernards School, and Susan Lerdahl, 2401 Center Avenue of Troop 78, at Lowell School. The first Madison cookie sale was in 1928.
March 1, 1945
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Girl Scouts Cookie Project
March 12, 1949
Judith Engel and Joanne Fraililng, Girl Scouts from Troop 46 at East Jr. High School, receiving cookies from Reidar Strand. The Strand Bakery, 2007 Atwood Avenue, baked the cookies for the Girl Sco...
Girl Scout Cookie Sales
March 1, 1945
Three Girl Scouts sampling cookies at the Strand Baking Company, 2007 Atwood Avenue, with a baker, Reider Strand. Left to right: Sandra Bird, 1325 Jenifer Street, a member of Troop 40, East High Sc...
Girl Scout Troop 46 East Jr. High School
March 12, 1949
Joan Connor, 2802 Lakeland Avenue, and Dell Binger, 2706 Sommers Avenue, are reading recipes as part of the cooking indoors and outdoors Girl Scout project
Girl Scout Selling Cookies
March 16, 1950
Troop 118 Girl Scout Pauline Heland of 228 Langdon Street gets an order for Girl Scout cookies from Francis F. Bowman, Jr., president of the Madison Community Chest.
Girl Scouts Cookie Project
March 12, 1949
Nancy Hockett and Patricia Rinden, two Girl Scouts from Troop 46 at East Jr. High School, nibble cookies in anticipation of their project to sell cookies for the benefit of the Scout camp fund.
Girl Scout Cookie Sales Co-Chairs
March 1, 1945
Co-chairmen of the Girl Scout Cookie sale (left to right), Mrs. Robert T. Walker (Ruth), 733 Huron Hill, and Mrs. Charles W. Ellis (Agnes), 122 Lakewood Boulevard.
